The agreement of the mathematical formalism of spectral geometry and all its subtleties such as the periodicity of period 8 of the \(KO\) -theory, is promising but might still be accidental. Instead, what is most convincing is the pertinence of this approach when recovering [1]} the see-saw mechanism (which was dictated by the pure math calculation of the model), while being unaware at the time of its key physics role to provide very small non-zero masses to the neutrinos, and of how it is “put by hand" in the standard model. The low Higgs mass then came in 2012 as a possible flaw of the model, but in [2]} we showed the compatibility of the model with the measured value of the Higgs mass, due to the role in the renormalization of the scalar field which was already present in [3]} but had been ignored thinking that it would not affect the running of the self-coupling of the Higgs.
